Hair waver



Jan. 12, 1932. Q TERRY 1,840,543

HAIR WAVER Filed May 22, '1930 Patented Jan. 12, 1932 UNETED STATES CHARLES TERRY, OF REDDITCH, ENGLAND HAIR WAVER Application filed May 22, 1930. Serial No. 454,772.

My invention relates to that type of hair wavers comprising a pair of spaced members and a cooperating tongue which is adapted to be inserted into the hair and then moved to a position between said members, thereby to cause the hair to be bent sharply over the blade with the result of imparting a more or less permanent wave to the hair.

My objects, generally speaking, are to provide the spaced members with projections on their inner faces shaped and disposed in a novel manner to assist in imparting a wave to the hair; to form these projections in such a manner as to materially stifi'en and reinforce the spaced members, and to provide an eflicient means of retaining the tongue or blade in an operative position between the spaced members.

A practical embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away, of my improved hair waver.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings in be observed that my improved hair waver comprises essentially a tongue or blade designated as a and a pair of sheet metal strips designated as Z) and 0, respectively, which are secured together in side to side spaced relation and between which the tongue at is movable.

Preferably the strips are curved in the planes thereof to conform approximately to the curvature of the head, and each strip is provided at spaced points throughout its length with transversely disposed projections on its inner face, the projections of the strip 5 being designated as b and those of the strip 0 as 0. These projections preferably are produced by indenting the outer faces of the strips whereby the projections in transverse section have rounded faces and whereby undesirable sharp corners are avoided, and all of the projections are longitudinally curved, all of those of one strip being curved in one direction and all of those of the other strip detail, a will beingcurved in an opposite direction. Moreover, the projections of each strip preferably are disposed subsantially midway between the projections of the other strip. Thus, when the tongue or blade through the hair and moved between the strips 6 and 0, a wave not only is imparted to the hair by reason 0f the same being bent sharply over the tongue or blade, but the oppositely curved and spaced projections of the respective strips cooperate with one another to impart waves tothe hair in planes substantially at right angles to the plane of the wave produced by the hair being bent over the tongue.

The tongue or blade or is pivoted at one end between adjacent ends of the strips 1) and 0 as indicated at d, and washers 6 preferably are interposed between the tongue or blade and the strips to provide for the desired spacing of the strips relative to one another. The tongue or blade thus is swingable to and from an operative position between the strips, and in order to hold the blade in its operative position. between said strips a novel blade retaining means is provided. By particular reference to Figs. 1 and 3 it will be noted that the strips 2) and 0 are maintained in desired spaced relation at their ends opposite the pivot (Z by a spacing member f which is of U-shaped cross section for the accommodation of the free end portion of the tongue or blade (I, the strips being secured to the sides of said member by rivets h. It will also be observed that the rivet-s h serve to secure within the member 7, against the inner faces of the sides thereof, resilient members 9 which are adapted for frictional retaining engagement with the sides of the tongue a when the latter is moved between said members, the said members 9 being formed either separate from or integral with one another as desired.

Without further description it is thought that the features and advantages of the invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and it will of course be understood that changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to, without departing from a is inserted the spirit of the invention and scope of the appended claims.

I claim l. A hair waver comprising a pair of sheet metal strips secured together in side to side spaced relation, a tongue adapted to be inserted through the hair and moved between said strips thereby to effect bending of the air over the tongue, and projections dislo posed transversely across the inner faces of the respective strips for cooperation with one another to effect further bending of the hair, said projections being formed by indenting the outside faces of the strips whereby the projections are caused to have rounded transverse contours.

2. A hair waver as set forth in claim 1 in which the projections of one strip are curved longitudinally in one direction, in which the projections of the other strip are curved longitudinally in the opposite direction, and in which the individual projections of each strip are disposed substantially midway between adjacent projections of the other strip.

3. A hair waver comprising a pair of strips, a tongue pivoted at one end between adjacent ends of said strips for swinging movement to a position between the latter, a spacing member between the opposite ends of the strips, said member being of U-shape to accommodate the free end portion of the tongue, and resilient members secured against the inner faces of the side portions of said U-shaped spacing member for frictional engagement with the sides of said tongue to retain the latter between said strips.

4. A hair waver as set forth in claim 3 in which rivets are employed to secure the strips against the spacing member and in which the resilient tongue retaining members are secured to the spacing member by said rivets.

London, England, May 6th, 1930.

5 CHARLES TERRY. 

